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It purposes to present articles of value both to the specialist and the 

 agriculturist on the subject of North American insects, together with 

 notices of current entomological literature. 



Descriptions of the Noctuidae have been continued by Prof. A. R. 

 Grote in contributions to the Canadian Entomologist and in the North 

 American Entomologist. With a diminution in the number of new forms 

 of Nocture presenting themselves, Mr. Grote has directed his attention to 

 the Pyralidse, and has published a paper in the Bull. U. S. Geolog.-Geo- 

 graph. Survey (vol. iv., pp. 669^705), entitled, A Preliminary Study of 

 the North American Py rat idee, in which a number of new species are 

 described, the species of Botis enumerated, and the venation given of 

 certain genera of the Phycidse. A supplement to this paper follows in the 

 North America?i Entomologist, No. 2, pp. 9-12. 



To the study of the Tortricidae — a family which has received scarcely 

 any attention in this country since the death of Mr. C. T. Robinson, Prof. 

 C. H. Fernald, of Orono, Me., has been devoting special and earnest 

 attention. He has been able to examine nearly all the material contained 

 in the principal collections in this country, and during the past winter has 

 visited the larger collections in Europe for their study and a comparison 

 with our forms. In England, the Tortricidee in the following collections 

 were critically examined by him : those of the British Museum, of H. T. 

 Stainton, R. McLachlan, C. J. Barrett and Lord Walsingham ; and on the 

 continent, the collections in Brussells, Berlin, Munich, Naples, of Prof. 

 Zeller in Stettin, Dr. O. Staudinger, MM. Deyrolle and Ragenot and the 

 Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The above amount of preliminary work should 

 certainly enable Prof. Fernald, as is his hope, to present us with a re- 

 arrangement of this extensive family quite in advance of any heretofore 

 proposed. Prof. Fernald has prepared a synonymical list of our North 

 American species, which is nearly ready for publication. 



The work of Mr. V. T. Chambers on the Tineidae of the United 

 States, has been vigorously prosecuted, as may be seen in his frequent 

 Dublications in the Canadian Entomologist. His papers on Tineina 

 and their Food-plants, and Index to the Described Tineina of the United 

 Slates and Canada (Bull. U. S. Geolog.-Geograph. Surv., vol. iv., pp. 107- 

 167), have been appreciatively received as very convenient for reference. 



The comparatively small but difficult group of the Pterophoridae has 

 engaged the attention of Mr. Charles Fish, of Oldtovvn, Me., and his 

 studies have already made him our best authority in these forms. 



